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Gender and Landscape is a feminist inquiry into a long-ignored area of study, the landscape. Although there has been an exhaustive investigation into issues of gender as they intersect with space and place, very little has been written about the gendering of the landscape.This volume provides a bridge between feminist discussions of space and place as something "lived" and landscape interpretations as something "viewed". The first of its kind, this book demonstrates that feminist critiques of landscape and place are not exclusive ontological realms; rather, they are mutually constitutive. The chapters in this book argue that the gendering of space and place create moral codes within societies that can be read in the landscape.

List of figures

p. vii

Notes on contributors

p. ix

Acknowledgments

p. xiii

Introduction: gender and landscape: renegotiating morality and space

p. 1

A man's home is his empire

p. 17

Home alone? Masculinity, discipline and erasure in mid-nineteenth-century Ceylon

p. 19

The labourer's welcome: border crossings in the English country garden

p. 34

Transplantation of the Picturesque: Emma Hamilton, English landscape, and redeeming the Picturesque

p. 55

Mobile homes

p. 75

At home aboard: the American railroad and the changing ideal of public domesticity

p. 77

"The salt water washes away all impropriety": mass culture and the middle-class body on the beach in turn-of-the- century Atlantic City

p. 94

How to travel with a male

p. 109

A wilderness for men: the Adirondacks in the photographs of Seneca Ray Stoddard